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Back in the day, Dr. J (Julius Erving) was The Man. He reinvented the game. His graceful scoops, his flights of acrobatic fancy, his nasty afro, the super-high tube socks, the illegitimate child(ren). He was the most popular man in American sports. Well, apparently times have changed, and the good Doctor’s star has fallen a bit. Check that, A LOT. We initially heard this story on the radio and a google search directed us...

For those of you who have missed our RW recaps, you can rest easy, they are back, well...kind of. As our expert on all-things-RW recuperates from a month-long battle with his Tivo, another of us has decided to take a swing for him, which is kinda like having to pinch hit for Barry Bonds. And for those of us who do not have a television-recording device and must rely on transcribing the events in...

We watched episode twelve from a bed in the Hilton Hotel in mid-town Manhattan. We were on a business trip that we didn't particularly want to go on. We've been watching a lot of episodes on the road lately, and it's making us home sick. (We're actually writing this recap at Chicago's Midway airport.) And here's the thing -- seeing those silly shots of the Frost Bank building, the montages of Congress Ave and...

EPISODE 9, WHICH WE FORGOT TO RECAP LAST WEEK, A VERY QUICK MINI-RECAP: Wes is jealous of Leo, Johanna's local squeeze. In a jealous rage, Wes brings a blonde back to the house, with whom he fornicates, repeatedly, on camera. Johanna comments, Wes reacts, they get into a bitter feud. The blonde leaves in a huff. Meanwhile, Melinda worries that Danny won't return, and Danny cries like a little bitch. What will happen? Who...

Well, we've just about had it with our stolen cable. For some reason, and we are beginning to think this is some sort of ironic punishment for writing these recaps, the reception we get for MTV is getting worse and worse. It started out a bit fuzzy. It has since degraded to a screen 3/4 of which is taken up by a unmoving static blur, and 1/4 of which is taken up by a...

Monday night, pop culture nerds swarmed Book People to see Chuck Klosterman, author of "Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story." As we are pop culture nerds, we were sitting on the front row. Klosterman is a senior writer for Spin and a contributor for Esquire. "Killing Yourself to Live" is his third book, and it follows Klosterman on a trip across the country in the summer of 2003, visiting several sites...

OMG, we are so late writing our weekly recap of The Real World that for a while we were considering not even doing one. I mean, how relevant is a recap once the episode has been aired three hundred and fifty times? But then we realized that this episode has another few thousand runs in it's lifetime, which means that our grandchildren will probably be watching it on their Lazer Vision 8000-X Holographic Brain...

On our past recaps, we've had comments from people saying things like, "Oh god, I can't handle watching these idiots do nothing but drink and screw!" and "Are they going to do anything other than drink and screw this time?" and also, "Drinking and screwing? Again!?" We had no idea what everyone was complaining about. Drinking and screwing is fun! And it is fun to watch people do it, even if they are stupid....

Before we begin, we'd like to point out the interesting comments left by reader Sgt. Anonymous, who gave us some insight into Rachel's actual experiences in the military with quotes from a magazine called Air Force Times, which clearly isn't getting enough real news from the military about the wars we are fighting, and has to fill its pages with nonsense about The Real World. Oh, we are so political! How about that Supreme...

As is our tradition around here, the first order of business before we get into the dirty details of this week's episode is to list off the errors and errata that have been submitted since last week. In our previous recap, we accidentally said that Danny and Melinda were in front of the "Driscoll" hotel, when we meant to say "Driskill." Also, we were totally wrong, it wasn't either of these hotels. In other...

Because we never turn down a chance to dither on about something we know nothing about on television, this Austinist contributor was just filmed for tonight's 10 o'clock news on KXAN about the underage drinking portrayed in recent episodes of The Real World: Austin, about which we write a very funny recap. We think the reporter's line of questioning will convey the general idea of what this report will be about. It went something like this:

We begin this week's recap with a few small corrections to the last one, which have been requested by umpteenzillion readers. First off, the person who appears in episode 2 in the big directors chair is John Pierson, not Paul Stekler. Stekler appears later on in the episode, and is the guy who is going to actually be helping the housemates film their documentary. Pierson is the guy who had to defend his relationship...

Due to retardation problems on the part of the editor of this site, and an errant button press on the TiVo remote while we were buffering the show so that we wouldn't have to watch commericials -- there may have been weed involved -- we screwed up big time and didn't get to watch the third episode of The Real World last night when it aired. BUT DON'T WORRY! We've got our TiVo set to record it this afternoon, and our weekly recap will be online early this evening.

If the visions of debauchery seen in the season premiere of The Real World: Austin is any indicator of what is to come, we may have on our hands a pop culture episodic that carefully documents the total disintegration of all things good and wholesome, like a giant Nothing rolling across the land, destroying everything in its path. This is like the decadence of Ancient Rome - orgies, gladiator combat, drunken celebrations of Bacchus...

What happens when people stop being nice and start getting real (real obnoxious, real drunk, real lazy, real coddled, real melodramatic, real self-conscious, real drunk and real drunk)? Well, we will all find out soon, as The Real World: Austin premieres tonight on MTV at 9PM.

Somebody had a case of the Mondays yesterday. Luckily, a caring friend offered the perfect remedy. After all, what better way to enjoy the lovely spring weather than to sip a Greyhound at our favorite local watering hole, Club DeVille? Our evening was disrupted, however, when at approximately 10:00 p.m. a motley group of old Real World cast members sauntered in. At first we thought the hot bartender had been a little heavy handed with the vodka, but we soon realized that we were indeed face to face with the likes of MJ, Coral and several others who can currently be seen on Real World/Road Rules Challenge #917. Seemingly in town to do promo for the forthcoming Real World: Austin (set your TiVo now), we suspect they'll be around for a few more days. Have your cameraphones at the ready.

Austinist was planning on taking it easy last night, as the first day of the music festival is the sixth day of SXSW for us. But the lure of rock and roll is very strong, and we found ourselves wafting towards downtown at a surprsingly early hour to see shows. And what dids't our little eyes peep? Crowds! Crowds everywhere! And not an internet nerd in site! Before we go into our writeup of...

As most people know, MTV's The Real World is being filmed in Austin as we type. The six, or is it seven? We can never remember... The castmembers have been in their house for a little over a month now, and have been spotted all over downtown and South Congress, including at Austinist's preferred Yoga spot, the Gold's on 6th.